Since I am working on a pattern for February right now, I have been looking at lots of Valentine’s Day designs. And I found one that I find very creative, it’s not your average pink and red hearts quilt. It is called “Hugs Before Kisses” and was designed by Melissa Corry of “The Happy Quilter”. It is a Moda Bake Shop pattern, so it calls for a Jelly Roll but it is also a nice scrappy pattern for leftover fabric. And it doesn’t even have to be a Valentine’s Day quilt. The alternating X and O blocks create a nice secondary pattern that would look wonderful in any colourway. Be sure to check out her method of squaring up the lattice units for the X blocks by using masking tape on her ruler – a very simple and effective way to turn your ruler into a template. As always, for copyright reasons I am just posting a drawing to give you an idea, for a picture of the whole quilt please click on the button at the end of the post that will take you to Moda Bake Shop.